RE: [Exim] More viral fun and games

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Author: Kevin Brady
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] More viral fun and games
One thing I noticed about the filter is that it does not stop attachments
whose names are both unquoted and have a space in the filename. I noticed
that a variant of the original loveletter (fwd: joke) does meet these
conditions. I'm not familiar enough with rexexp to fix this quickly, any
thoughts on how to do this?

Kevin Brady
Network Administrator
Creative Solutions
kbrady@???

-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Metheringham [mailto:Nigel.Metheringham@VData.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 6:01 AM
To: exim-users@???
Subject: [Exim] More viral fun and games


At the risk of sounding like an anti-virus product manufacturer
attempting to hawk his wares....

There appears to be a new and more destructive LOVELETTER variant 
around.  It is polymorphic and the attachment name changes as does the 
subject etc.  From my reading of the information on it the generic 
executable attachment killer should deal with it - see
    ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/system_filter.exim


Further reading:-
http://www.fsecure.com/v-descs/newlove.htm
http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VNa
me=VBS_NEWLOVE.A

    Nigel.
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